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Britain is a notoriously negative nation. We were convinced we wouldn’t be granted the opportunity to host the Olympics in 2011, and when we were, we moaned about the cost. In contrast to the chipper optimism in the U.S., pessimism runs rampant throughout Britain...
...Francisco is considering selling the naming rights to nearly 800 endangered classes. The 105,000-student institution gets most of its funding from the state government, which is grappling with an estimated $27 billion budget deficit. The school has already imposed a freeze on new hires and cost-of-living adjustments to employees' salaries. Faced with an estimated $25 million budget deficit, the school's chancellor, Don Griffin, has proposed eliminating 800 of the school's roughly 9,800 classes for this fall. Last month, however, he proposed a novel potential solution: saving the classes with corporate sponsorships...
Whether or not Obama suffers any domestic political cost for putting pressure on Israel remains to be seen - he won three-quarters of the Jewish vote in last year's election, and he has good reason to believe he can retain most of that support even if he prods Israel on issues like settlements. After all, the settlements are not fundamental to Israel's security, to which Obama constantly reiterates his rock-solid commitment. (Watch a video about Israel's lonesome doves...
...Funding is another issue. The European Commission has promised $350 million from the E.U.'s $7 billion economic-stimulus fund to jump-start the project, and the European Investment Bank has said it is prepared to finance up to a quarter of the pipeline's cost, about $3 billion. But with other private and public sources hesitating to commit, Nabucco's future is still in doubt...
...workers are demanding that the plant's two biggest clients - the makers of Renault and Peugeot cars - provide the $41,000 for each job being eliminated. Not surprisingly, officials at both those groups say they aren't going to pony up the total $14 million that would cost - especially since the machinery and auto parts at the plant are scarcely worth $2.8 million. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...